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Posted to oak-dev@jackrabbit.apache.org by Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de> on 2012/12/18 16:44:37 UTC

OT: normative language, was: Conflict handling in Oak

On 2012-12-18 15:12, Tommaso Teofili wrote:
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> On 18/dic/2012, at 09:49, Felix Meschberger wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Just remember that "MAY" is difficult to handle by developers: Can I depend on it or not ? What if the "MAY" feature does not exist ? What if I develop on an implementation providing the "MAY" feature and then running on an implementation not providing the "MAY" feature ?
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>> In essence, a "MAY" feature basically must be considered as non-existing :-(
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>> All in all, please don't use "MAY". Thanks from a developer ;-)
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> I remember such a pain when dealing with browser compliance to HTTP spec some years ago, SHOULD / MAY [NOT] were my enemies :-)
 > ...

...in which case you should read the new spec(s) and provide feedback 
before they get finalized :-) (-> 
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki)

Best regards, Julian